Karam v Aloe & Co Pty Ltd

[2016] VSCA 123

Victorian Court of Appeal

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Costs
3. › Taxation of costs
4. › Consent order resolving costs dispute
5. › Whether consent order reviewable as taxation
6. › No taxation to review where dispute settled by consent
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Appeals
3. › Extension of time to seek leave to appeal
4. › Whether extension futile where proposed appeal manifestly hopeless
5. › No prospects of success

Quick Take

Where a costs dispute is resolved by consent order, there is no taxation capable of being reviewed under rules of court that authorise review of a taxation. A party who contends that a consent order was made without authority must seek to set aside the consent order, and may have recourse against their former legal representatives in separate proceedings.